Earning this degree was both the best and worst decision of my life. Through out college I didn't do any work. My room mate was an engineer and he worked all day and all night. Whereas I slept all day and all night. I graduated college and immediately entered the work force. I loved and have always loved business so I applied for several jobs expecting job offers right and left. To my surprise, no one offered my any jobs. Now with my degree in Entrepreneurship I am an Assistant Manager at a local McDonald's in my hometown where I work 4 days a week and boss around teenagers. I wish I were putting my degree to good use.

A major in Accounting and Information Systems practically guarantees being able to find a job. Accountants and IS professionals are generally well-respected in society. As for cons, the work might not be very glamorous or exciting, and accountants usually have to work pretty hard. However, knowing how to start up, analyze, run, or improve a business can open up many doors both domestically and abroad.

I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and so a general degree in business seemed like a great plan! I figured it would let me do whatever I wanted, and it has.

The down-side of this is that there are too many options. I'm a generalist in a world of specialists and it's taken me years to point myself on a track that I"m intersted in. Right now, I work as an active board memeber of a Washington state non-profit, and get to work on making connections for the organization. I also spend a lot of time doing our financials and back-end planning.

It's given me a solid base and I have a good understanding of how the business should be run.

A good basis for general business skills but not too much more in depth than the core requirements for all business majors, so if you want to lean toward a specific career I wouldn't choose this. If you are unsure what you want to do btu want the basic background skills for a solid business career I would recommend this over a general business degree. I would obtain this degree again if I had the chance.

I really enjoyed the majority of my classes in Business Management. I was not a big fan of the economics courses that were required but I see where they are necessary. My best advice would be to take advantage of the counselors in your specific area. They can save you alot of frustration. I switched to business after a year and a half of nursing and my counselor helped me thru what I had that applied and what did not. She made some suggestions and encouraged me alot to not get frustrated and that I was not the only person to change my mind.

My suggestion for anyone considering this major is to specialize in a certain area of information systems. For example, become an expert on a certain programming language or database system. I would encourage anyone interested in technology to pursue this major. If I had to do it again I would still get my degree in MIS, but I would definitely pick a specific area to learn everything I could. The information technology sector is extremely competitive, which is why I suggest becoming an expert in a certain area, which is a negative. The positive is MIS is very rewarding and pays pretty good.

I would recommend a general BBA degree as an option for someone choosing a course of study as it offers the full range of management and business training without making you focus excessively on a more specific major. This breadth of knowledge serves you well in the business place. This also allows you to get your foot in the door of a new employer, then you can pursue a specialty once you have practical experience.

Well, there will always be a need for Accountants. But, the degree of expertise has changed over the 30 years I have been an Accountant. When I first started out you had to have very good handwritting as everything was written out longhand. But, 30 years later you have to know computer programs and a great many different types.

I would believe that over the next 30 years almost all that I had to learn as an accountant will be done by a computer requiring no human interaction.

Pros of this job is that they will be demand. Cons is that what I learned a long time ago is not taught any more thanks to computers. And, employers are okay with the accountants today not aware of "Assets equal liabilities plus equity"

I would find a great business school and work very hard to learn the basics so you can build on that foundation. You definitely need to build that foundation strong or the harder material will not make sense.

It is tough, however, it gave me a great base for my MBA. I would definately recommend studying this, I am an analyst and I fall back on my major all the time. The pros are great opportunities, and challenging. The cons are it takes a lot of work.

This is a very difficult and challenging major. I've seen many students begin and then drop the course half way through because they just cannot grasp the material. Many of these students have done very well in math classes and business classes.Accounting is also very repetitive and monotonous. If you enjoy data entry and calculating then you would probably enjoy this major. If you are put to sleep by financial reports or doing the same thing over and over then you should probably chose another major.

Being an interdisciplinary major, Management Information Systems (MIS) results in a degree which is both flexible and practical. In addition to specific MIS classes, my college required a solid base of core business classes, such as accounting, economics, and management, as well as core computer science classes, such as database management, common programming languages, and mathematics. Career-seekers in this field would be able to achieve success in either the business world and the technical world.

Job options have seemed to be plentiful when economic conditions allow. It appears that starting salary on average may be slightly lower than a more specific business or technology degree, but I would also argue that a degree in MIS provides an employee more opportunity for upward growth within an organization, as the MIS graduate has knowledge of management techniques and business operations, paving the way for promotions into administrative positions.

From a personal viewpoint, I appreciate the variety of experiences during the business day that a job in the MIS field is likely to provide. A more technical degree often means more time spent in solitary work. A more business-oriented degree often means more time spent working with people and teams. Many MIS careers have a healthy mix of both.

I would recommend this major to someone who has an interest in both business and technology, who desires opportunities for flexibility or career advancement, and who enjoys a variety of settings within the workday.

I think you truly have to be creative to excel in the marketing world. I don't know if it was just my school, but I don't this was explained well to me, so my advice is to be able to think outside the proverbial box. I would not choose this major again if I could go back. The pro's are that Marketing people can make goog money if they are good at what they do. The con's is there are a lot of people with marketing degrees.

Accounting is a great major if you want to be an accountant. Thsi is important as it takes a certain type of person to succeed in this field. And no, accounting does not include taxation, that takes extra schooling (and is more fun). But as a base for business, accounting is top-notch. I use my accounting background in my current computer consulting field. Clients appreciate that I can understand business, especially finances, and can listen to what they need and translate it into computer-speak. All in all, I am glad I got a degree in accounting, and woudl proabbly do it again, in hindsight.

I will strongly recommend this course for those students who are planning to put up a business or is already involve in business such as his / her family. But it is also recommended for those who want to learn about leadership and handling people. In regards to studying it again, as a matter of fact I had taken a few untis in masteral in this course as well. Thgis course will be a great help for those who are already involved in business or is sure to be involve in the business world. But if you just plan to be employed having this course I think that you will not be able to apply all your learnings in this course.

A useful and interesting degree, but one in which the student had best already have practical experience. Otherwise, the risk is that of being overqualified for any entry-level positions and lacking the experience necessary to obtain a managerial position.

Marketing,many people misunderstand as just selling a product or service. But, only an MBA ( Marketing ) can understand that marketing is selling an idea, convincing the other person about your idea and make him think the same again and again. This spirit of Marketing has helped me not only to find a good job, but also to organise all of my personal and social life too.

My major at Hofstra was classified as Business Computer Information Systems - BCIS. This is a great major as it brings the wolrd of business and IT together. As part of this major you take a full line of business courses giving you a background in accounting, management, marking, finance. Then you also take information systems classes and even programming classes. You leave college well prepared for many career oppertunities. I moved into the Business Analyst field. The cons of this particular degree are that it is a business degree, meaning that if you do decide to pursue a computer / development career and further education, you will need to get your Liberal Arts and Science course work done.